Bring a windows program to the front

I searched for this but didn't find anything that answered my question.
Is it possible to control programatically which windows programs are at the front?
So if I was running a vi (which is on top) and I needed to automatically bring a running windows program to the front??
Then when I was done bring the running vi back to the front.
How can that be done?
Thanks
Rick.
Solved!
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https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-4551
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